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| RIP Charlie Watts |
As a musician and a drummer and a fan on the Rolling Stones, this is a sad day indeed. I saw the Stone live at Alpine Valley Wisconsin. An outdoor amphitheater where about 70,000 Rolling Stones fans came for a Party with Mick, Charlie and the rest. One of the greatest concerts I ever saw and I have seen close to everyone.
I honestly can never say I was particularly impressed with Watts as a drummer, nor did I understand exactly what people meant by a drum "staying hit". But I respected the backbone and solidarity he provided to a band that many claim to be the greatest "rock band" in history.
But the Stones were the an entire band of not particularly great musicians, but a group of musicians that came together "just right"! In a time where there are very few real "bands" anymore, Watts will be missed.
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Scott, thanks
I saw them here.
1989: Still the Greatest
BY ROBERT HILBURN
OCT. 20, 1989 12 AM PT
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The winner and still champ: the Rolling Stones.
On a night when rock ‘n’ roll’s most celebrated survivors played with such passion and fire at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum that they looked as though they could go on convincingly for another 10 years, Guns N’ Roses, the young Los Angeles rock upstarts, made you wonder Wednesday whether they were going to even survive the concert.
In a series of hot-tempered remarks during his group’s 80-minute set, Guns lead singer Axl Rose not only fueled the controversy over the racial and sexual epithets in the band’s song “One in a Million,” but he twice suggested that the four-day Coliseum stand, which concludes with shows Saturday and Sunday, may be his last performances with the band.
The concert loomed as a classic rock ‘n’ roll showdown: a generational battle of the bands.
But the Stones simply had too many weapons: too much historic aura, too many great songs and too splendid a lineup of musicians.
Some of the Stones’ songs (especially “Play With Fire” and “2,000 Light Years”) are too dated, and others are decidedly marginal (“Harlem Shuffle,” “Undercover of the Night”), but the best of the Stones’ rockers (“Start Me Up,” “Brown Sugar”) and the most seductive of the band’s mood pieces (“Tumbling Dice,” “Honky Tonk Women”) are rock hallmarks.
The Stones, with good reason, have been called the world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band for so long--at least since the early ‘70s--that for years no one has even considered an alternative. It wasn’t until the band’s recent seven-year layoff from touring that rock observers started wondering if the band--nearing its third decade--should pass the torch.
Guns N’ Roses isn’t the only contender, but it is the only one appearing with the Stones during the band’s 3 1/2-month tour. The group--whose bad-boy stance is reminiscent of the Stones’ role in the ‘60s and early ‘70s--is the most celebrated hard-rock outfit of the ‘80s. Its first two albums have sold an estimated 12 million copies.
The singer for Guns and and Roses wore pants with no clothes covering his ass!
Pamela and I weren't smoking weed at that time. But a few guys sitting behind us got so stoned they were sleeping when they played!
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-20-la-et-stones1989-story.html
I saw them here.
No one cares alky, since it's not about you.
FYI - It's NEVER about you.
You tried to hack James account
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I reported you to Facebook jail
I see rat once again shows his lack of a working brain......It's not about you either, but you are too stupid to figure that out!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! V
Very sad indeed considering he was the most normal of the stones .........
Blogger Roger Amick said...
You tried to hack James account
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100071799142852
I reported you to Facebook jail
Good luck with that alky. I'm not on Facebook. I've NEVER been on Facebook, and wouldn't know the first fucking step to "hacking" someone.
It's been my experience that when someone says their Facebook/Twitter has been hacked, they themselves posted something nasty, racist, and homophobic themselves, like Joy "face looks like a baboon's ass" Reid.
So report away. Then go fuck yourself.
They could put on a show. Saw Tattoo You in the Superdome and Steel Wheels at GA Tech
Blogger Caliphate4vr said...
They could put on a show. Saw Tattoo You in the Superdome and Steel Wheels at GA Tech
Never saw them and never really cared either way. Had a chance to see them - summer of '78 @ Syracuse University and let it go by. Always enjoyed them but was never a huge fan. I remember the next day on the news seeing kids before the concert using the Carrier Dome which was under construction as a trampoline.
Updated: 08/24/2021 11:41 AM EDT
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a band of Democratic centrists are finalizing a deal that would clear the way for passage of the party's $3.5 trillion budget framework and set a Sept. 27 House vote on infrastructure — an offer both sides hope will end their weekslong standoff.
After several hours of furious negotiating Monday night, Pelosi and her team are close to announcing the compromise, which they hope to put on the floor as soon as Tuesday afternoon, according to several people familiar with discussions. Most, if not all, of the recalcitrant moderates — led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J..) — were expected to accept the deal and back the budget blueprint on the floor later Tuesday.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a band of Democratic centrists are finalizing a deal that would clear the way for passage of the party's $3.5 trillion budget framework and set a Sept. 27 House vote on infrastructure — an offer both sides hope will end their weekslong standoff.
That's nice alky.
Let us know when it passes the senate and lands on Slow Joe's tray table in his "room" at the white house for his scrawl.
Never saw them and never really cared either way. Had a chance to see them - summer of '78 @ Syracuse University and let it go by. Always enjoyed them but was never a huge fan.
I was always a fan, jagger was so much better than Robert Plant, he sounded 2 cats fighting in a burlap sack.
Then later on I went total alternative
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